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Nevertheless, human-created art can never “So what makes art and design special
be replaced as Ms Kwok stressed that the is that human designers connect with
value of human art lies in its storytelling people, we communicate messages, we
abilities and messages behind. When AI come up with stories that affect people’s
generates art, it takes references in its emotions to make them love the art or
database and combines its data sets to love the brand,” Ms Kwok concluded.
generate artworks. “So if users just feed She believes that design has the power
the AI with existing images and ask it to inspire thought. Through design,
to regenerate the images in a specific Ms Kwok has a heartfelt aspiration to
style, I think that it will only lead to more cultivate a deeper social awareness and
and more similar artworks appearing,” a broader global outlook, addressing
Ms Kwok said with a worrying tone. She complex challenges and presenting ideas
cautions, “It may lead to more and more that can drive meaningful change.
designers having the same framework Her first community design, “Have a Walk
and style, and artists of the new generation with Me in Tokwawan”, is a zine that
m a y s o o n l o s e t h e c r e a t iv i t y a n d documents the Tokwawan community
innovation that people used to have.” before the completion of the Sha Tin to
Central Link. Her photographs capture
Yet, in this AI-dominated epoch, human the area’s essence throughout different
creativity is not becoming, and will times of the day. It illustrates the human
never become obsolete or antiquated as power i n a r t a nd de sig n — A I c a n
Ms Kwok mentioned that the reason generate photographs that depict multiple
behind why art and designs can make time settings in Tokwawan, but it cannot
an impact or inf luence others is that replicate t he breat hta k ing power of
stories and context — no matter explicit nat u re or its aut hent ic picturesque
or vague — are constantly carried by sceneries. Even if the technology of AI
human art. AI, though efficient, uses elevates in the near future, it remains
mathematical algorithms to “create”, but as an echo to human art; it can never
authentic humans reminisce euphoric be a genuine voice itself as it can never
experiences, recall heartbreaking traumas, “create” art.
and remember real-life ups and downs
to evoke genuine societal resonance.
This fundamental divide was laid bare
by the viral Monet hoax, which revealed
a crucial truth: while the general public
can be easily manipulated by a deceptive
online caption, true human master y
le ave s a n u nden i a ble phy sic a l a nd
historical signature — from deliberate
brush textures to deeply intentional choices
— that algorithms cannot seamlessly Ms Kwok’s art project – “Have a Walk
mimic. with Me in Tokwawan”